(Image source: Google, Facebook)
BY MALLORY PERRYMAN
ANCHORED BY MEGAN MURPHY
You're watching multisource tech video news analysis from Newsy.
Facebook-- and Google.
Two tech titans battling it out for social media turf.
Circles --versus lists.
+1-- versus “like”.
And now-- Hangouts -- versus video calling.
On June 29th- Google launched Google+
A social media platform complete with a group chat option called “hangouts”
And just a few days later-- Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced this--
Skype video-chat integration.
So how does it stack up to the “hangout” video chat format in Google+?
The biggest difference--
Facebook’s video calling feature is one-on-one.
While the G+ hangout allows up to ten people to video chat at once.
The more the merrier, right? Depends on who you ask. Emil Protalinski writes for ZDNet- Google triumphs for technicality.
Facebook wins for practicality.
“If I fire up Facebook Chat right now, approximately 10 percent of my Facebook friends are on my contact list. Half of them are online, and I can ask them to video chat...If I open up Google+ right now, one person is available to use the video chat feature. In other words, the multi-video chat aspect is completely useless to me.”
But TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington says- both features are good- for different things.
“...for now, there’s really no comparison between the products. Facebook video chat is great to talk to friends one at a time. Google Hangouts is great for group chat. There’s no real overlap between the products at all.”
And a Fortune blogger adds- Google+ and its video hangouts aren’t likely to draw crowds of users away from Facebook...
“But after today, the question that has long dogged Google -- whether it can innovate in the social space and not just develop creative duds -- should be put to rest. For the first time in a while, social media is a two-horse race.”
Zuckerberg says he isn’t ruling out adding a group video chat feature to Facebook in the future.
Follow Newsy on Twitter @Newsy_Videos for updates in your stream.
Transcript by Newsy.
 |  |  |  |
